VIDEO: Mark Steel on: Toby Young and I, Daniel Blake
British comedian and political commentator Mark Steel takes on Toby Young’s criticisms of the film I, Daniel Blake
Watergate Redux or ‘Deep State’ Coup?
The whole Comey/Russophobia issue continues to spiral past propaganda, past delusion and into total madness. Social media is boiling with neoliberals telling each other Trump is a “new Nixon”...
Lebanon – Hedonism and War
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek, first published on New East Outlook Palestinian refugee camps are up in flames, across the country, a result of the disputes between the rival...
"The regime will be there" – U.S. Concedes Raqqa…and the Syrian East?
from Moon of Alabama A new Wall Street Journal piece, primarily about the ISIS held city of Raqqa on the Euphrates, casts doubt on long term U.S. plans for...
Major Media Organize to Rig Web-Search Results
by Eric Zuesse at Strategic Culture The New York Times, as Robert Parry has pointed out, “Cheers the Rise of Censorship”, but only of censorship of any allegations that...
Sauron Rules in Washington
by Paul Craig Roberts “The problem is that the world has listened to Americans for far too bloody long.” Dr. Julian Osborne, from the 2000 film version of Nevil...
The Future of Our Children: Jeremy Corbyn’s Speech on Education Policy
from Another Angry Voice AAV compares the standing ovation Corbyn got for this speech with Theresa May’s lamentable performance on the Andrew Marr show, where she could be seen...
The OffG view on the UK General Election
A while back we said we’d watch and wait for developments in the UK General Election. So far nothing is happening that could not be expected. The Tory press...
The Guardian Takes Aim at Venezuela’s Democracy
by Joe Emersberger from TeleSUR The British newspaper recently published an editorial saying that President Nicolas Maduro’s government must be threatened with “pariah status.” From 2006 to 2012, The...
American Democracy: A Dead Man Walking
by Paul Craig Roberts Trump’s “sell-out,” as it is called, coming on top of Obama’s eight-year “sell-out,” is instructive. We have now had a Democratic president who sold out...
The US Aggression on Syria and the Principles of a “Just War”
by Prof. Vladislav Sotirovic The US military forces committed a classical example of the aggression on one sovereign and independent state on April 6th, 2017 by bombing the territory...
Marching in Circles: Faustian Thinking and the Myth of Science
The recent marches on April 22nd to promote science and to celebrate Earth Day were perhaps well-intentioned, but they were delusional and conducted without any sense of irony. They...
Comment issues – please read
As most of you know we have an open comment policy on OffG. No one is ever pre-modded and no comments are censored unless they are content-free trolling, grossly...
The silence of the pseudo-left on the danger of war
by Eric London at Defend Democracy Press A wide range of nominally left-wing political groups and publications have acquiesced to a series of dangerous military actions by the Trump...
New McCarthyism: 39% of Democrats name Russia biggest threat
by Eric Zuesse The campaign by the Obama-Clinton Democratic Party establishment to blame their electoral failures upon Russian leader Vladimir Putin is shown in a recent Pew poll to...
Requiem for the suicided: Vince Foster
Who was Vince Foster? What was his relationship to Hillary Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas? What was he working on in the Clinton White House? And...
Middle Eastern Surgeon Speaks About the "Ecology of War"
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek Dr. Gus Abu-Sitta is the head of the Plastic Surgery Department at the AUB Medical Center in Lebanon. He specializes in: reconstructive surgery. What...
Media Lens skewers Monbiot’s Syria nonsense
The always incisive people at Media Lens have just done an excellent job exposing the most recent media campaign for a NATO invasion of Syria as the dangerous, sub-intelligent...
Mad-Dog Mattis Going Rabid
byEric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org On Monday, April 25th, the AP headlined, “US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban” and reported that U.S. Pentagon chief James...
Debunking Trump’s Casus Belli in Syria
by Philip Giraldi Wars and rumors of wars have been dominating news cycles of late. No one should be surprised that there is a “former intelligence officer” subculture that...
